Mayor De Blasio Signs Law Establishing 'Third Gender' For NYC Birth Certificates (X)Post Date: 2018-10-09 20:50:31 by hondo682 CommentsIn what will no doubt be celebrated by millions of New Yorkers as an important milestone in the city's march toward a more inclusive future, NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio on Tuesday signed into law a bill that will make it much easier for transgender individuals and others who don't ascribe to one of the "traditional" genders to make sure their "correct" gender identity is reflected on their birth certificate and other identifying documents. The bill creates a third gender - 'X' - that can now be listed in the place of male or female on birth certificates. De Blasio signed the bill at a ceremony flanked by his wife, First Lady Chirlane McGray, and a host of ...

Johnstone: Forgiveness Is OverratedPost Date: 2018-10-08 13:54:28 by hondo680 CommentsJournalist David Sirota has just published an excellent op-ed titled Americas new aristocracy lives in an accountability-free zone, which begins with the observation that Enron executives were among the last politically connected criminals to face any serious consequences for institutionalized fraud. Sirota goes on to remind readers how there was never any attempt by either mainstream political party to bring accountability to anyone responsible for monstrous offenses ranging from the disastrous invasion of Iraq to the ecocidal manipulations of fossil fuel plutocrats to the Wall Street plundering which led to the 2008 global financial crisis. Sirotas ...

Chelsea Clinton Claims Aborting 60 Million Babies Since Roe “Added $3.5 Trillion to Our Economy”Post Date: 2018-08-14 14:27:11 by hondo685 Comments If you cant convince someone to support abortion with bodily rights arguments, try pushing the money angle, Chelsea Clinton told a group of abortion activists Saturday. CNS News reports Clinton claimed the infamous U.S. Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade was a good thing, not only because it gave women the dignity to make our own choices, but also because it led to a $3.5 trillion boost to Americas economy. It is not a disconnected fact that American women entering the labor force from 1973 to 2009 added three and a half trillion dollars to our economy. Right? Clinton said during a Rise Up for Roe rally protesting U.S. Supreme Court ...

Eric Clanton takes 3-year probation deal in Berkeley rally bike lock assault case (Ethics Professor, plea bargan)Post Date: 2018-08-09 15:00:03 by hondo682 CommentsA man police allege to be Eric Clanton holding a bike lock, April 15, 2017. Photo: Citizen reporterA former East Bay college philosophy professor who was charged with four counts of felony assault with a deadly weapon, causing great bodily injury, has taken a deal resulting in three years of probation for an attack at a Berkeley protest last year, court records reveal. Eric Clanton had been linked by police to violent assaults with a metal bike lock during a free speech rally in Berkeley on April 15, 2017. Before his arrest, Clanton had been outed online, on the website 4chan, as someone who used a bike lock to strike a man in the head. The assault was captured in a ...

What is QAnon? Conspiracy Theorists Showed Up to Support Trump at Tampa RallyPost Date: 2018-08-01 08:49:21 by Willie Green2 CommentsAt a rally in Tampa, Florida, Tuesday evening in support of Representative Ron DeSantis, President Donald Trump hit on familiar themes, boasting of being Americas most popular Republican ever, attacking the fake media and drawing chants of build the wall."Sharp eyed viewers may have noticed a plethora of signs held aloft by members of the crowd not emblazoned with the customary Trump slogans, but with the phrase We Are Q or "QAnon."Others wore a T-shirt with a large Q encircling a YouTube logo. Slogans also referred to Seth Rich, a Democrat staffer whose death last year has become the focus of baseless right-wing conspiracy ...

Ginsburg suggests she has at least five more years on the Supreme CourtPost Date: 2018-07-29 23:30:03 by hondo6819 Comments Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks with Nina Totenberg during the 2018 Sundance Film Festival at Filmmaker Lodge on January 21, 2018 in Park City, Utah. New York -- (CNN)Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she hopes to stay on the Supreme Court until the age of 90. "I'm now 85," Ginsburg said on Sunday. "My senior colleague, Justice John Paul Stevens, he stepped down when he was 90, so think I have about at least five more years." She has already hired law clerks for at least two more terms. Ginsburg spoke in New York following a production of "The Originalist," a play about the late Justice Antonin ...

Family Denied Worker's Compensation Because Worker Killed in Accident Legally Used MarijuanaPost Date: 2018-07-28 18:15:53 by Gatlin3 Comments We've heard of people being punished for using legal marijuana, but now apparently those problems also extend to a cannabis user's family as well. A widow in Colorado is being denied half of the compensation she's owed after an accident that killed her husband. And the reason they're denying half the compensation is because her husband had legally used marijuana. Adam Lee was an electrician in Colorado who was repairing a ski elevator in December 2016 when the machine began malfunctioning and he was killed. But now the state says they will only give Lee's family half of the compensation they are owed since a toxicology report done after his death determined he had ...

Stoner study: Regular marijuana use contributes to lack of motivation, foresightPost Date: 2018-07-25 18:54:07 by Gatlin1 Comments Marijuana is arguably mainstream now, but frequent use has its drawbacks. According to an Australian study, marijuana is detrimental to long-term goal planning. Specifically, it affects episodic memory, which is the motor of episodic foresight, or the ability to time-travel into your future in your head and plan your goals. The studyavailable herecompared 57 pot smokers to 57 non- smokers in what the study called an Autobiographical Interview task. Every participant was asked to describe either an experience from their past or a possible scenario for their future based on a cue word. The frequent smokers, who smoked three or more times a week, found it more difficult to ...

Rodrigo Duterte branded an ‘evil psychopath’ after calling God a ‘stupid son of a b***h’Post Date: 2018-06-25 18:33:53 by hondo681 CommentsDuterte questioned the concept of original sin in a speech on Friday, saying that if God created Adam and Eve only to let them give in to temptation, This son of a b***h is then really stupid Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, already notorious for having cursed the pope and world leaders such as former US President Barack Obama, has been branded evil and a psyschopath after he called God stupid and a son of a b***h in Asias largest Catholic country. Duterte questioned in a televised speech on Friday the Biblical story of mans creation and asked why God created Adam and Eve only to allow them to succumb to temptation ...

The FR Griftathon ContinuesPost Date: 2018-06-24 12:13:38 by Hank Rearden8 CommentsI note that RimJob's quarterly grift has consumed almost all of the current quarter yet again. With just six days left in the month, it's currently at 97% and slowing down - they'll be lucky to have a handful of days without the heavyhanded begging notices all over the place - and I bet they can't wait for the next one to begin a week from today. And yet, after all these years and all those millions of dollars - a user still cannot edit a posting to correct errors or update the content. But a lot of fun was had at Olive Garden, I'm sure........ If anybody still hasn't been booted, like me, for doubleplusungood thoughts, please ask them if the Bush Picturelickers ...

Justice Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch levy internet taxes[Full Thread]Post Date: 2018-06-21 21:37:24 by hondo6852 CommentsHigh Court: Online shoppers can be forced to pay sales tax WASHINGTON (AP) -- States will be able to force more people to pay sales tax when they make online purchases under a Supreme Court decision Thursday that will leave shoppers with lighter wallets but is a big financial win for states.Consumers can expect to see sales tax charged on more online purchases  likely over the next year and potentially before the Christmas shopping season  as states and retailers react to the court's decision, said one attorney involved in the case.The Supreme Court's 5-4 opinion Thursday overruled a pair of decades-old decisions that states said cost them billions of dollars in lost ...

'Disastrous' copyright bill vote approvedPost Date: 2018-06-20 08:35:47 by Willie Green3 CommentsA committee of MEPs has voted to accept major changes to European copyright law, which experts say could change the nature of the internet.They voted to approve the controversial Article 13, which critics warn could put an end to memes, remixes and other user-generated content.Article 11, requiring online platforms to pay publishers a fee if they link to their news content, was also approved.One organisation opposed to the changes called it a "dark day".The European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs voted by 15 votes to 10 to adopt Article 13 and by 13 votes to 12 to adopt Article 11.It will now go to the wider European Parliament to vote on in ...

Mark Sanford concedes to Katie Arrington in SC District 1 race, losing his first electionPost Date: 2018-06-13 03:02:02 by hondo6811 Comments"Like I said in the beginning it isn't a me, it is a we moment." Katie Arrington said as she defeated U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel for Katie Arrington's results party on Tuesday, June 12, 2018 in North Charleston.Andrew Whitaker/Staff In a monumental upset fueled by a Donald Trump tweet, U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford lost his Republican primary to Katie Arrington, a one-term state lawmaker who made loyalty to the president the centerpiece of her campaign.The defeat, which carries national implications, marks the first time Sanford has lost an election, which began with his first congressional bid in this very district in 1994.President Trump  ...

Cindy McCain Set to Succeed Husband in Senate Post Date: 2018-05-29 16:28:22 by hondo6829 Comments Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and his wife Cindy (AP) As Arizonans prepare for their final salute to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Republicans and political pundits in the state privately tell Newsmax they expect the appointment of his wife, Cindy, to succeed him in the Senate. Of course, no one in the Grand Canyon State who spoke to us wants to go on record discussing what will happen when the ailing McCain no longer holds his seat. But those who did, agree almost unanimously, Cindy McCain following John in the Senate through appointment by Gov. Doug Ducey, R-Ariz., is a near certainty. "I've always assumed that was the arrangement," said a friend of the McCain family since ...

Texas, California, and the Tale of the Coyote Post Date: 2018-04-04 23:20:06 by Dead Culture Watch2 CommentsTexas, California, and the Tale of the Coyote Ive already had a couple of blog posts commenting on how Texas is kicking Californias you-know- what. Being a fiscal policy person, I always point to Californias punitive state income tax as an example of bad policy and highlight the absence of any income tax in Texas to explain the success of that state. But sometimes its just culture and attitude. Heres a joke comparing the two states, but its based on something that actually happened in Texas. CALIFORNIA: The Governor of California is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out, bites the Governor and attacks his dog. 1. The Governor ...

Woman arrested after seen in Facebook video giving marijuana to 1-year-oldPost Date: 2018-03-22 18:06:28 by Gatlin1 Comments A North Carolina mother was arrested on Wednesday after allegedly forcing her 1- year-old child to inhale marijuana, as seen on a Facebook video that went viral. Brianna Ashanti Lofton, 20, was charged with two counts of felony child abuse, contributing to delinquency and possession of marijuana, according to an arrest warrant obtained by ABC affiliate WTVD. Raleigh Police became aware of the video after a man in Rochester, New York, posted the video online, according to WTVD. In a statement, the police department thanked residents and others who began posting the video and related information after 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. "Big thanks to everyone who posted information about the ...

Libertarian Think Tank Let Boss Sexually Harass WorkersPost Date: 2018-03-10 13:36:08 by Gatlin2 Comments Libertarians hate coercion. To the extent that the anarcho-capitalist right justifies its worldview in moral terms, it is through an appeal to the obscenity of brute force. The problem with the welfare state, according to many libertarians, is not that it redistributes resources from rich to poor but that it accomplishes this by threatening wealthy tax dodgers with imprisonment. Individual liberty is sacrosanct, and just social policies are those that do not violate a persons will through a threat of state aggression. The logical flaws of this nonaggression principle are myriad. But most spring from the libertarians insistence on applying it arbitrarily, to suit ...

Fake news sharing in US is a rightwing thingPost Date: 2018-02-14 09:48:22 by Willie Green6 CommentsUniversity of Oxford project finds Trump supporters consume largest volume of junk news on Facebook and Twitter Low-quality, extremist, sensationalist and conspiratorial news published in the US was overwhelmingly consumed and shared by rightwing social network users, according to a new study from the University of Oxford. The study, from the universitys computational propaganda project, looked at the most significant sources of junk news shared in the three months leading up to Donald Trumps first State of the Union address this January, and tried to find out who was sharing them and why. On Twitter, a network of Trump supporters ...

Dumbed-Down Security Briefings Still Too Difficult for Trump to ReadPost Date: 2018-02-09 11:36:04 by Willie Green18 CommentsWhen Donald Trump was elected president, it quickly became obvious that the traditional national-security briefing a person in his position receives daily would be well beyond his zone of proximal development. The briefings were slimmed down in length, chopped up into easy-to-digest bullet points, and decorated with lots of graphs and pictures. Alas, the Washington Post reports, even the kiddie version of the presidential brief has proven too challenging. Now, Trump gets his briefing verbally. Trump, the Post reports, has opted to rely on an oral briefing of select intelligence issues because reading the brief  which every president has been able to do since its existence ...

Bitcoin could fall below $5,000 if this report on a mysterious cryptotoken is rightPost Date: 2018-02-05 14:11:42 by Gatlin0 Comments Some people think bitcoins spectacular price rise last year was manipulated by a cryptotoken called Tether thats supposed to be pegged to the US dollar. Now, an anonymous report answers the question: What would bitcoin be worth without Tether? The answer: around $4,500, based on the current bitcoin price of about $7,600. Tether is a crypto token, or coin, thats supposed to be pegged to the dollar and backed by real dollar reserves in a bank account somewhere. Tethers coins are often used for dollars on cryptocurrency exchanges because of the reserve claim. Traders use Tethers coins to cash in and out of bitcoin quickly, avoiding the lengthy process of ...

Meet the Man Who Started the IlluminatiPost Date: 2018-02-02 08:41:19 by Gatlin23 Comments Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Illuminati THE ILLUMINATI AIMED TO CREATE A STATE OF LIBERTY AND MORAL EQUALITY. How did a Bavarian professor end up creating a group that would be at the center of two centuries of conspiracy theories? The 18th-century German thinker Adam Weishaupt would have been stunned if he had known his ideas would one day fuel global conspiracy theories, and inspire best- selling novels and blockbuster films. Until he was 36, the vast majority of his compatriots would have been equally stunned to discover that this outwardly respectable professor was a dangerous enemy of the state, whose secret society, the Illuminati, was seen to threaten the very ...

"This Is Serious": Facebook Begins Its Downward Spiral[Full Thread]Post Date: 2018-01-29 09:53:34 by Tooconservative42 Comments Years ago, long before Mark Zuckerberg became Mark Zuckerberg, the young founder reached out to a friend of mine who had also started a company, albeit a considerably smaller one, in the social-media space, and suggested they get together. As Facebook has grown into a global colossus that connects about a third of the globe, Zuckerberg has subsequently assumed a reputation as an aloof megalomaniac deeply out of touch with the people who use his product. But back then, when he only had 100 million users on his platform, he wasnt perceived that way. When he reached out to my friend, Zuckerberg was solicitous. He made overtures that suggested a possible acquisitionand once ...

Documentary on the alt-right sheds light on the movement's rootsPost Date: 2018-01-18 08:57:30 by Willie Green0 Comments You might think you know the full story of the so-called alt-right, known for their venomous racism and virulent anti-feminism. But a new documentary is shedding light on what it says is one of the most surprising roots of the movement: Sexual frustration. Author Angela Nagle spent more than a year exploring the online origins of the current alt-right movement, which she says included communities of single men looking for advice on picking up women. She said many of these so-called pick-up artists argued that feminism was part of what made attracting women so difficult. Nagles report can be found in the new Fusion documentary, Trumpland: Kill All Normies. ...

For A K A Stone and rlkPost Date: 2018-01-15 20:17:00 by Fred Mertz7 CommentsPoster Comment:I've seen this before and saw it again tonight on TeeBee. Please ping the Trumpsters for me, thanks.